Day Two

Today ends with hope and resolve for the future.

First, witness the Women’s March around the world /

In Trump land, he went to the CIA HQ and gave a speech in front of the CIA equivalent of the Arlington Cemetery.

  1. Bragged about the record number of his Time’s magazine cover appearances (false - not a record).
  2. Claimed that the media manufactured his feud with intelligence community (false - he attacked IC in his own tweets).
  3. Complained about media showing empty fields in his inaugural, and claimed the crowd is 1-1.5 millions (false - see day one).

He could have stopped there and that would be just Trump being Trump.

Despite the first White House briefing is scheduled for Monday, Press Secretary Sean Spicer conducted an emergency briefing session. It’s worth watching in full.

The choice quotes from this briefing.

Inaccurate numbers involving crowd size were also tweeted. No one had numbers, because the National Park Service, which controls the National Mall, does not put any out.

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This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration – period – both in person and around the globe.

From the weekly Standard (which is not a liberal news org) link

What’s worrisome is that Spicer wouldn’t have blown his credibility with the national press on Day 2 of the administration unless it was vitally important to Trump.

And if media reports about crowd size are so important to Trump that he’d push Spicer out there to lie for him, then it means that all the tinpot-dictator, authoritarian, characterological tics that people worried about during the campaign are still very much active.

You know who obsessed about crowd size? Fidel Castro. You know who did not? George Washington, John Adams, Andrew Jackson, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton, and every other man to ever serve as president of these United States of America.

Many years ago, this amazing exchange happened between Helen Thomas and Dana Perino.

How do you think the current administration and press secretary will handle a similar confrontation?

Oh, and Spicer didn’t take a single question, nor did he address the world-wide Women’s March, which has been estimated at over 3 million marchers in the US.

So brave. Such an auspicious start to this administration. Looks like we found where it hurts.